Nothing to See Here! Corrupt Nets Spare Scant Seconds to Covid Texas Dems

Scott Whitlock | July 19, 2021
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Conservatives and Republicans say this a lot, but can you imagine if the situation was reversed? Five Democrats who abandoned their state to try and stop Texas from passing a voting rights bill have now tested positive for Covid. The story, from Saturday to Monday, has amounted to a scant 35 seconds on the ABC morning and evening newscasts, 20 seconds for NBC and a meager12 seconds on CBS. The reporting all had a no-big-deal tone. On Monday, as the total of Covid-plus Texas Democrats rose from three to five, only NBC’s Today bothered to mention it. Reporter Gabe Gutierrez breezily explained, “Over the weekend, five Texas Democrats who traveled to D.C. to stall their state's controversial voting rights legislation, tested positive for Covid, even though they had all been vaccinated.” 

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